gentile
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Jesenská, a gentile, was a Czechoslovak citizen living in Vienna, and when she received Kafka’s permission to translate him into Czech the two began a passionate correspondence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Noah was initially written to be a lot more like Tikhman, leaving Levitan unsure whether the stakes between a Jew and gentile who fall in love were high enough for a TV audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2024
Now, because it occurs around the biggest holiday here for our gentile friends, we make a much bigger deal out of it.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2023
“We reaffirm that Jew and gentile, we are one nation under God; that black and white, we are one nation indivisible; that Republican and Democrat, we are all Americans,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 3, 2023
He also made arrangements with his gentile friend Wojek to sell a few of his fine suits on the black market.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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He removed the armband identifying him as a Jew and lined up before dawn with the gentiles to seek bread.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
But when gentiles are cast as Golda Meir or Mrs. Maisel or Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there is little blowback.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
Moreover, their devotion paid off materially; after converting to Catholicism in mass baptisms, Frank’s followers take on Polish names and prosper as gentiles, with several even entering the nobility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
A final example of how Roth's white gentiles talk about Blacks can be found in the autofictional novel "Deception."
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2021
In fact, of the two hundred fifty workers Schindler hired in 1940, only seven were Jews; the rest were Polish gentiles.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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